Philippians 2:14

Do everything without grumbling or arguing. A complaining, quarrelsome spirit undermines the witness of God's people.

Cross-references · 33

• 1 Pet 4:9Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
• 1 Cor 10:10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
• Jas 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
• Eph 4:31–32Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
• Phil 2:3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
• Rom 12:18If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.
• Exod 16:7–8and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we that you should grumble against us?”
• 1 Th 5:15Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
• Jas 1:20for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
• Gal 5:26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
• Jas 3:14But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
• Prov 15:17–18Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
• Gal 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
• Rom 14:1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.
• Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
• Ps 106:25They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
• Heb 12:14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
• Rom 16:17Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
• 1 Tim 6:3–5If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,
• 1 Pet 3:11He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
• Acts 15:2And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.
• Acts 6:1In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
• 1 Th 5:13In love, hold them in highest regard because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
• 1 Cor 3:3–5for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• 1 Cor 1:10–12I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.
• Mark 9:33–34Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was in the house, He asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”
• Num 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• Mark 14:5It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.
• Matt 20:11On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
• Acts 15:7After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
• Acts 15:39Their disagreement was so sharp that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,
• Prov 13:10Arrogance leads only to strife, but wisdom is with the well-advised.

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